US Patent Issued to SNAP on March 17 for "Shared augmented reality experience in video chat" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,784, issued on March 17, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Shared augmented reality experience in video chat" was invented by Nathan Richard Banks (Merrylands, Australia), Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Amanda Durham (Miami), Alex Edelsburg (Seattle), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.) and Ryan Thomas (Leichhardt, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for providing a shared augmented reality experience in a video chat. A video chat can be established between a plurality of client devices. During the video chat, videos of users associated wit...